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Notes, write-ups, and things worth keeping.
The Frontier LLM Field Guide I Actually Use
GPT, Claude, Gemini, and the open-weight challengers — how the leading models differ in practice, and how to pick one for real work instead of for a benchmark.
Running a Useful LLM on Your Own Laptop
A practical guide to local models in 2026: what runs on ordinary hardware, what the tradeoffs really are, and when local beats the cloud.
Teaching Your Agent to Say 'I Don't Know'
The most valuable behavior in an agentic system is not intelligence — it is the ability to stop, admit uncertainty, and ask for help before doing damage.
The Machines Behind This Blog: A Photo Essay
Three photographs of the hardware that keeps this site online — a laptop, a rack of servers, and a circuit board — and what each one says about running a zero-cost static web.
My Selfhosted Stack in 2026, Audited
A yearly review of everything running on my own hardware: what survived, what got deleted, and what I would tell anyone starting from zero.
The Boring Truth About Agentic AI
Most agent demos are choreography. The agents that actually earn their keep look less like movie robots and more like a diligent junior employee with a checklist.
A Little JavaScript That Survives Reload
A single-file, framework-free note keeper with persistence, search, import/export, and keyboard flow — built to keep working when your CMS doesn't.
Night Markets and Network Effects
Pasar malam stalls trade in attention, not just food — lessons on why some queues get longer just because they're long.